It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYThe people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
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The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The more you know, the more you see
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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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